Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-28
EVENTS OF The WEEK,

William J. Allen has been appointed
district judge for southern Illinois.
Henry f. Merritt, of Illinois, has
been appointed consul at Chemnitz
The Capital hotel at Lincoln, Ne
braska was sold on Saturday for $780,
600.
The crown prince of Germany is
said to be suffering from cancer Of the
tongue.
George Bancroft, the historian. is
the guest of Mrs. James X. Polk, at
Nashville.
The Omaha board of trade has taken
possession of its new building. which
cost S75, 600.
Daniel Manning walks or drives
daily about the village of Bourne
mouth, England.
Whitefish fry to the number of a
million and half were on Wednesday
deposited in Green bay.
John u, 6lalne, an army paymaster,
brother OF James G. Blaine. lies at the
point OF death at Hot Springs.
The strike of carpenters In Chicago
has been declared off, and work was
resumed on Monday morning
The Wisconsin Central road has ex-
tended It's track to within eight miles
OF Hurley, on the Gogebic range.
Three attempts have recently been
made by 1ncendiaries to destroy the
office OF Der Zeit,nag in New York.
AS the result Of q recent trial at
PoSen, Germany, nine socialists were
sentenced to short terms Of imprison-
ment.
The legislature of West Virginia
has commenced an extra session. Bal
loting for senator will begin on
May 3.
The customs authorities at Montreal
have seized fifty-nine barrels Of whisky
entered as vinegar at four cents per
gallon.
Six residents of st. Petersburg have
been sentenced to death for completely
i'll the plot to aSsassinate the car on
March Is.
The Governor of Wisconsin, at the
request of many influential citizens,
has vetoed the bill to prohibit stock
gambling.
BY the premature explosion of. a
blast III mine at Buena Vista, Col
orado, six men were killed and seven
wounded.
William Bohde, of Cincinnati, has
been acquitted of the murdef OF Fred
KyliuS, the seducer of the formers
daughter.
Burglars at COshocton, Ohio, admin
iStered fatal dose of chloroform to
Mrs. Amanda Murphy and her young
daughter.
A party of fourteen Bald-Knobbers
were taken from Springfield, Missouri,
to Ozark, to await the action of a Spe-
cial grand jury.
A company of infantry has been or
dered from Fort Sully to the Winnie
bago and Grow Creek reservations to
drive out settlers.
For the purpose of founding a gene
raj hospital at Montreal, Sir George
Stephen and Sir Donald Smith have
each given $500, 900.
George Werner. schOol-teacher,
has fled from Milwaukee to avoid
arrest Tor causing the death OF pupil
whom he punished.
The customs collector at Boston re-
fuses to permit the landing of eight
EngliShmen who came under contract
as yelvet-WeaverS.
A draft for $75, 900, drawn by a Phil
adelphia bank on New York, has gone
astray in the mails, and it's payment
has been stopped.
On a farm near Lima, Ohio, Joseph
Burch killed his wife with hammer
and hanged himself by means Of bark
twisted into moose.
Two companies of infantry are
about to be assigned to Chicago and
Denver, to aid in establishing military
posts near those cities.
Buccaneer, a famous stallion, for
which the Austrian Government once
refused an offer Of 100000, has been
shot on appO1lnt of old 9Up
A landslide at st. townsville, New
York, on the track of the Central
road, derailed a train, killing the en-
gineer and injuring the fireman.
The entire surplus wheat crop of
California is said to have been cor
nered by William DreSbach, John w.
Mackay, and the Nevada Bank.
The stove-molders of Pittsburgh and
Louisville, numbering one thousand
or more, have struck against the boy
cotted patterns from ST. Louis.
III. &. Busby, supposed to be ring
leader in the thefts from the Pan
Handle road, has been recaptured and
lodged in jail at DennisOh, Ohio.
The attendance at the levee given by
the Goyernor-General of Canada on
Saturday evening, is said to have been
only one-half as great as usual.
OIlCcludI 111uOy, O1 N1luUedpUd1S,
has since Saturday morning lost four
children by scarlet fever, and the re-
naming three are not expected to
live.
The wife of Secretary Whitney, de-
string to commemorate the chriSten-
ing of her infant daughter, gave SIS, 600
to st. Johns orphanage in Wash
ington
The Knights of Labor have formed
an assembly of iron and steel workers
at Pittsburg, and an application will
be made to Mr.. PoWderly for a
charter.
In a farmhouse near Seven-Mile
Ford, Virginia, two girls named
Bowles were burned. to death, and
three other persons received fatal
injuries.
The estate of Charles Lux, in Cali
fornia, reported to be worth $40, 000,-
600, is about to be distributed among
his relatives in Macon and Platt coun-
ties Illinois